TN: 'Republican' Label on Anti-Islam Event Confuses Some Calling themselves "the Republican Wing of the Republican Party," the Tennessee Republican Assembly will host anti-Islam activists Michael Del Rosso and Andy Miller at its annual conference Saturday. But according to assembly President Sharon Ford's Facebook page, Frank Gaffney, a nationally recognized anti-Islam author and speaker who testified in a lawsuit aimed at stopping Murfreesboro mosque construction, had to bail on the event due to a scheduling conflict.

CAIR-SV:Family Mourns Artist Who Fled Violence in Iraq Only to Be killed in a Sacramento Parking Lot (Sacramento Bee)"He left a war-torn Iraq to find a safe place to live with his family, and now he's going back in a casket," said Basim Elkarra, executive director of the Sacramento Valley chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations at a news conference Thursday attended by a dozen community leaders and elected officials decrying Alawsi's seemingly senseless slaying.

CAIR-CT: Civil Liberties Conference at CCSU this Weekend The conference, organized by the Connecticut Coalition to Stop Indefinite Detention, the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, the Council on American Islamic Relations in Connecticut and United Action-Connecticut, will take place from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain. ... Other participants include Dawud Walid,executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations of Michigan.